GNU bug report logs - #32210
Support medium weighted fonts

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Message #57 received at 32210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com, 32210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32210: Support medium weighted fonts
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:18:55 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com,  32210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:20:25 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> -  { 205, { "extra-bold", "extrabold" }},
> >> -  { 210, { "ultra-bold", "ultrabold", "black" }}
> >> 
> >> What are those numbers?  Is it just an ordering, and it doesn't matter
> >> what the numbers are?  Or are they used when instantiating fonts
> >> somewhere?
> >
> > It's used in faces.el.
> 
> The numbers are?  The data ends up in font-weight-table, but this is the
> only place I can find in faces.el that uses that variable:
> 
> (defun face-valid-attribute-values (attribute &optional frame)
> 
> [...]
> 
>            (:weight
> 	    (mapcar #'(lambda (x) (cons (symbol-name (aref x 1)) (aref x 1)))
> 		    font-weight-table))
> 

Not sure what exactly you are asking, but does font_style_to_value
answer that?

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